Privacy Policy
Last updated: 4 October 2026
This policy explains what personal data collectip.com collects, why, and what you can do about it. It covers the website www.collectip.com, its members area and the Collectip newsletter.
1. Who is responsible for your data
The controller of your personal data is:
Maco GmbH
Weid 13, 8126 Zumikon
Switzerland
E-mail for privacy requests: info@collectip.com
2. What we collect and why
| Purpose | Data | Legal basis | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
| Showing you the website and keeping it secure | Technical data your browser sends: IP address, browser, device, pages requested | Our legitimate interest in running a secure website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) | As set by our hosting provider, Squarespace |
| Newsletter | Your e-mail address, and your name if you give it; whether you open our e-mails and click their links | Your consent, confirmed by e-mail (Art. 6(1)(a)) | Until you unsubscribe |
| Members area | Your account: e-mail address, name, password (managed by Squarespace), membership status | The membership contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) | Until you delete your account |
| Remembering your cookie choice | An anonymous consent code, the categories you chose, the banner version, the date. No IP address | Our legal obligation to demonstrate consent (Art. 6(1)(c), Art. 7(1)) | 24 months after your choice |
| Counting clicks to auction houses and newsletter sign-ups, if you accept analytics | The lot, the auction house, the time. No IP address and no code that identifies you | Our legitimate interest in knowing which lots interest our visitors (Art. 6(1)(f)) | Kept as anonymous statistics |
| Analytics, only if you accept | Pages visited, clicks, scrolling, the site you came from, device and browser, country and city derived from your IP address, page speed, a pseudonymous code stored on your device. Recordings of about one visit in five, with everything you type hidden | Your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) | Events 1 year; recordings 30 days |
| Audience profile, only if you accept marketing cookies | Age range, gender and interests, which Google provides in aggregate for visitors signed in to Google with ads personalisation turned on | Your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) | 14 months |
| Answering your messages | What you write to us by e-mail or on Instagram | Our legitimate interest in replying, or the steps before a contract (Art. 6(1)(b), (f)) | As long as needed to answer, then 12 months |
Details you may want:
- Visitors who reject or do not answer the banner are not measured: no analytics, no counts, and no cookies beyond the necessary ones.
- Visitors who accept analytics are measured with PostHog. Your IP address is used to find your country and city and is kept with the visit data. Session recordings hide every field you type in.
- Google Analytics with Google signals runs only if you accept marketing cookies. Google also uses data from signed-in Google users for its own purposes, under Google's privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).
- Links to auction houses. When you click "View the lot at auction", you leave our site. The link tells the auction house that you came from Collectip (a "utm_source=collectip" tag in the address). We do not send the auction house any personal data. Its own privacy policy applies from then on.
- Searches on Google. Google Search Console gives us aggregated figures on the Google searches that show our site. Nothing is collected on our site for this.
- We do not sell your data and we do not make decisions about you by automated means.
3. Who receives your data
We use service providers who process data on our behalf, under contracts that bind them to our instructions:
| Provider | What for | Where the data is |
|---|---|---|
| Squarespace (Squarespace Ireland Limited) | Website hosting, members area, forms | European Union and United States |
| jsDelivr (a public CDN) | Serves the code of the cookie banner when a page loads; it sees the technical data of that request | Worldwide (content delivery network) |
| Mailchimp (Intuit Inc.) | Newsletter | United States |
| PostHog Inc. | Analytics, session recordings | European Union (Frankfurt, Germany) |
| Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC | Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Search Console, and the Looker Studio reports that show their figures | European Union and United States |
| Pasquale Silvestre (Telaio Consulting) | Technical management of the site's measurement, and the dashboard of our aggregate figures, on our instructions | European Union |
| Google Cloud (via Telaio) | The service that records consent choices and anonymous counts, and the dashboard of our aggregate figures | European Union (Belgium) |
| Supabase (via Telaio) | The database that stores consent choices and anonymous counts | European Union (France) |
4. Transfers outside Europe
Some providers are based in the United States. Transfers rely on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, the Swiss–US Data Privacy Framework, or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.
5. Your rights
You can ask us to see, correct or delete your data, to restrict or object to its use, and to receive it in a portable format. Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time: use the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page, or the unsubscribe link in every newsletter. Withdrawing does not affect what happened before.
Write to info@collectip.com. We answer within one month.
You can also complain to a data protection authority: in Switzerland the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (www.edoeb.admin.ch); in Italy the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (www.garanteprivacy.it); or the authority where you live.
6. Cookies
Which cookies we use, and how to change your choice: see our Cookie Policy.
7. Changes
We will update this policy when what we collect changes, and change the date at the top. If a change needs your consent, the cookie banner will ask you again.